Owen was nabbed on the Lower East Side last November, after DNA from the crime scene was matched to his profile in the state database, where it was stored after he committed two violent attempted burglaries in Brooklyn in the late ’90s.

He had raped the old woman in June, five months earlier, after pushing his way into her apartment, near Pike Street, as she returned home.

“He kept grabbing my neck,” she told The Post through an interpreter, days after the attack. “I couldn’t breathe.”

Owen then dragged her to a bed. “That’s when he raped me,” she wept. Afterward, he stole money from her jacket and purse, chugged down an 8-ounce container of Carnation Instant Breakfast from her refrigerator, and left.

Owen has served three years in prison for his previous attempted burglaries.